Wasps' Nests

Name: Wasps' Nests
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 28
Ingredients: 100 g Sponge cake cookies; 90 g Sugar; 40 g Butter or margarine; 2 TABLESPOONS Rum; 1-2 TABLESPOONS Cocoa powder; 7-10 Tbsp Fat and sugar; 2 cooked egg yolks; 150 g Icing sugar (alternatively fine sugar); 3 TABLESPOONS Rum; 2 TABLESPOONS Semolina; 28 (3 cm ø) round biscuits

AUTHOR
Xavier Baldwin

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
35 mins

TOTAL TIME
35 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 28

100 g Sponge cake cookies
90 g Sugar
40 g Butter or margarine
2 TABLESPOONS Rum
1-2 TABLESPOONS Cocoa powder
7-10 Tbsp Fat and sugar
2 cooked egg yolks
150 g Icing sugar (alternatively fine sugar)
3 TABLESPOONS Rum
2 TABLESPOONS Semolina
28 (3 cm ø) round biscuits

Directions

1
For the dough, finely grind the sponge cake cookies. Knead with sugar, fat, rum, cocoa and 1 tablespoon cold water. Press wasps' nest forms greased and sprinkled with sugar onto the inner rim.
2
Turn out on a tray and leave to dry at room temperature for two days. For the filling, pass the egg yolk through a sieve and mix with egg yolk, icing sugar, rum and semolina. Fill wasps' nests with it and close each with a small sponge cake.
3
Results in about 28 pieces.